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Gone With the Wind

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Gone With the Wind (1939)

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Reviews Counted: 58 Fresh: 56  Rotten:2 Average Rating: 8.7/10
 
Consensus: Filmed and presented on a scale not seen in modern productions, Gone with the Wind is, if not the definitive Hollywood film, then certainly near the top of the list.
 

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Runtime: 3 hrs 58 mins

Synopsis: Hot-tempered, self-centered, part-Irish Southern beauty Scarlett O'Hara, played to the teeth by Vivien Leigh, loves the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard). Smug, rebellious, honest, blockade-running profiteer Rhett Butler, portrayed gracefully and naturally by Clark... Hot-tempered, self-centered, part-Irish Southern beauty Scarlett O'Hara, played to the teeth by Vivien Leigh, loves the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard). Smug, rebellious, honest, blockade-running profiteer Rhett Butler, portrayed gracefully and naturally by Clark Gable, loves Scarlett. Ashley, who is also in love with Scarlett, marries his genteel cousin Melanie (Olivia de Havilland) because he believes that their quiet similarities will create a better marriage than Scarlett's passion. Meanwhile, sparks fly between Rhett and Scarlett at their first encounter and continue throughout Scarlett's first two marriages. Scarlett and Rhett finally wed, but Scarlett continues to pine for her beloved Ashley. Set against the Civil War and Southern Reconstruction, this tragic love quadrangle offers the burning of Atlanta and fields of wounded Confederates as part of its lush scenery. Meticulous backdrops, glorious sunsets, numerous silhouettes, and the ultrasaturated Technicolor film create a hyperreal vision. The romantic score is every bit as lush and dramatic as the photography, borrowing folk melodies from the Old South to make the tragic war concrete. Heavy nostalgic tones pervade the often witty dialogue and larger-than-life charms and faults of the leads. GONE WITH THE WIND stands among the greatest epic dramas ever filmed. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, Leslie Howard

Director: Victor Fleming
Story: Margaret Mitchell
Screenwriter: Sidney Howard
Composer: Adolph Deutsch, Max Steiner, Hugo Friedhofer, Heinz Roemheld
Producer: David O. Selznick

DVD Info

Release:

Jul 1, 2008

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region (unknown)
  • Keep Case
  • 2 Disc Special Edition

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5/5

It's impossible not to be carried away by the rich arterial force of this storytelling.

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02/19/08
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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5/5

Grand old Hollywood at its most magnificent and melodramatic. Say what you like about the soapy characterisation and plotting, the spectacle flattens all in its wake.

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02/19/08
Channel 4 Film
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What more can one say about this much-loved, much discussed blockbuster?

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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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5/5

Well, even if it is essentially four hours about a selfish, silly cow, it's impeccably well made, and should be seen by anyone with even a passing interest in romance or movies.

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02/02/05
Empire Magazine
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5/5

Clear an evening and indulge yourself in one of the few films that can justifiably be called an epic.

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11/12/01
Almar Haflidason
BBC
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One of the truly great films, destined for record-breaking boxoffice business everywhere.

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02/19/08
John C. Flinn Sr.
Variety
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4/4

A lost Hollywood art: the epic melodrama.

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10/14/07
Michael Dequina
Mr. Brown's Movies
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A critic-proof movie if there ever was one: it isn't all that good, but somehow it's great.

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12/12/06
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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4/4

Terrificly acted, staged and designed, Gone WIth the Wind remains one of the greatest period epics ever filmed.

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10/17/06
Wesley Lovell
Oscar Guy
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3.5/4

Despite the star power of Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, Wind has lost some of its bluster, yet it survives as a glorious Technicolored window into America's dusty, bygone past.

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07/12/06
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly
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Forget it, no Civil War film has made a nickel, producer Irving Thalberg told Louis B. Mayer about a melodrama that would break records and become a unique cultural phenom

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06/27/05
Emanuel Levy
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The film that perhaps defines Hollywood.

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12/07/04
Douglas Pratt
Hollywood Reporter
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It's so full of iconic moments of plotting and dialog that a feature film could be edited just out of the most quotable moments.

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11/12/04
Gil Jawetz
DVDTalk.com
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10/10

...producer David O. Selznick's crowning achievement and a film that stands up as one of the screen's finest classics.

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11/05/04
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com
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5/5

One of the classic films that defined American cinema, Gone With the Wind is a rare example of a collaboration involving hundreds of talents and egos that turned out great.

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10/31/04
David Bezanson
Filmcritic.com
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04/30/04
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
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Possibly the best loved movie spectacle ever.

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04/27/04
Dennis Schwartz
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5/5

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03/05/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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5/5

Never, never bores me. Glabe is fabulous!

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01/21/04
Victoria Alexander
FilmsInReview.com
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4/5

No review available.

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08/22/03
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal
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